On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 00:17 +0000, Richard Mortimer wrote: > Fallback on the local-mac-address prom property if the Cassini device > does not have an address programmed in the VPD ROM. This uses the same > technique as implemented by the sungem driver. > > The problem was reported by Frans van Berckel using Debian kernel 2.6.34-7 > on Sun Fire V440. udev was assigning a new eth<n> device name on each reboot > because the cassini driver was using a random MAC address. > > Fix tested on 2.6.34-7/Sun Fire V440. Compile tested only against 2.6.36 > davem/sparc-2.6.git because Sun Fire V440 does not currently boot recent > kernels so runtime test is not possible at present. > > Reported-by: Frans van Berckel <fberckel@xxxxxxxxx> > Tested-by: Frans van Berckel <fberckel@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Richard Mortimer <richm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Good news. I did a 2.6.37 release build today with this patch. It's boot tested now and goes the same as it did in 2.6.34-7. Being happy. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
